Responsibilities

The Electrical Engineer will participate in both flight spacecraft system development and research projects in collaboration with science and engineering staff.

Key Responsibilities

• Specify, architect, design, and develop innovative analog and mixed-signal electronic systems, especially high voltage power electronics systems.
• Produce system level, sub-system level, and block level design including circuit architecture, circuit element selection, circuit and sub-system simulations.
• Develop and use mixed-signal behavioral models and behavioral simulation techniques and tools to verify sub-system and system functionality and performance.
• Contribute to package selection/evaluation and validation of board and packaging design.
• Create validation plans and scripts, and collect and assess validation results.
• Support cross-functional teams including digital design, product engineering, test engineering, and production engineering.
• Create clear and thorough documentation of design and product development activities to ensure high quality designs and to support dissemination of important design information to cross-functional teams.

Key features of the job include

• High level of empowerment and autonomy to build, test and fly hardware in under a year from concept to flight based on proprietary technology
• Stock options in a highly valued venture funded startup
• Membership in a dynamic team of gifted and intellectually diverse professionals
• Excellent benefits and bonus structures

Profile

This is a hands-on role that requires theoretical understanding and practical application of power electronics, high frequency switching systems, high voltage systems, circuit design, rapid prototyping, and related disciplines. The ideal candidate has 4 plus years of design and development experience and an Electrical Engineering BS, MS, or PhD. Prior experience with space applications preferred.

Education & Work Experience

• Minimum BS plus 4 years design experience,
• Preferred BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering plus 8 years analog and power electronics design and verification experience.

Desired Skills

• Experience preparing and leading major engineering design reviews throughout the development lifecycle with an outward facing role to the customer.
• Experience in various phases of the aerospace electronics component development cycle.
• Knowledge of front-end product development, including generating requirements, mechanical and thermal packaging, analog and digital design, and transition to production.
• Working knowledge of electronic component qualification requirements, including EMI/EMC and survivability.
• Electrical circuit simulation (ORCAD, PSPICE, LTSPICE).
• Electrical circuit analysis.
• High reliability electronics development.
• Prior spacecraft electrical engineering experience, especially high voltage systems.
• Working knowledge of electronics product acceptance test methodologies and special test equipment.
• Strong technical communication skills.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience adapting and modifying ground based COTS system for space qualification is a big plus.